OpenStack® Board Elects Tencent as Platinum Member of the Foundation

The Board of Directors of the OpenStack Foundation (OSF) has approved
Tencent as a Platinum Member, the highest level of investment and
commitment to the Foundation. Tencent is the No. 3 Internet company
worldwide and uses OpenStack to power many of its popular applications,
including WeChat, as well as power its external private cloud services
used by many government and industry customers across China.

In November 2017, Tencent won the exclusive Superuser award for its case
study using OpenStack to power WeChat and other popular internet
services. External customers of Tencent TStack private cloud include the
Public Security Department of YunNan Province, People’s Government of
Xiamen City and HBIS Group of TangSteel Company.

Tencent developers have contributed code to multiple OpenStack projects,
including Freezer, where they have a core developer, Kolla, LOCI, Nova,
OpenStack-Ansible and Oslo. Nine Tencent team members have taken the Certified
OpenStack Administrator exam. Tencent also supported the launch of Kata
Containers, managed by the OSF, and is integrating OpenStack
Keystone identity service and OpenStack Cinder block storage with its
container service.

“As one of the largest users of OpenStack in China, Tencent not only
widely deploys and uses OpenStack internally, but also benefits from
OpenStack and its advantage to integrate a large set of PaaS and SaaS
developed by Tencent which have been used successfully in our products,”
said Robyn Liu, vice president of Tencent Cloud. “Tencent creates and
maintains such a platform as an integrated solution, which is now
applied in different areas such as government, enterprise, hospital,
education, etc. It’s a great honor for Tencent to join the OpenStack
Foundation; Tencent is willing to bring our expertise and contribution
in order to promote and develop the whole open source ecosystem.”

The Tencent team is active across many open source communities and will
help further the OSF goal for cross-project integration. Tencent is a
Premier Sponsor at the upcoming OpenStack
Summit Vancouver, May 21-24, and a Diamond Sponsor at the upcoming OpenInfra
Days China, June 20-21 in Beijing.

Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OSF, said, “As the OpenStack
software and ecosystem has matured, it’s great to see large OpenStack
users joining at the highest level of membership and supporting the
community. This is an important step as the community continues to
evolve and OpenStack adoption surpasses 10 million compute cores
worldwide.”

The OSF Board evaluates new potential members based on their strategic
commitment to open infrastructure and contributions to relevant
communities, as well as diversity of company size, location and
industry. Platinum membership is capped at eight members, and Gold
membership is limited to twenty four. With the addition of Tencent, all
Platinum positions are filled. In addition to Tencent, Platinum Members
are AT&T, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Rackspace, Red Hat and SUSE. There
are 21 Gold Members, including 99Cloud, Canonical, China Mobile, China
Telecom, China Unicom, Cisco, City Network, Dell EMC, Deutsche Telekom,
EasyStack, FiberHome, Fujitsu, H3C, Hitachi, Inspur, inwinSTACK,
Mirantis, NEC, NetApp, UnitedStack and ZTE.

About OpenStack®OpenStack is the standard for private
clouds and is also available as a service via dozens of public cloud
providers around the world. At its core, OpenStack is an open source
integration engine that provides APIs to orchestrate bare metal, virtual
machine and container resources on a single network. The same OpenStack
code powers a global network of public and private clouds, backed by the
largest ecosystem of technology providers, to enable cost savings,
control and portability.

About the OpenStack® FoundationThe OpenStack Foundation
(OSF) supports the development and adoption of open infrastructure
globally, across a community of 90,000 individuals in 187 countries, by
hosting open source projects and communities of practice, including
datacenter cloud, edge computing, NFV, CI/CD and container
infrastructure.

The two primary projects are OpenStack,
the open cloud platform with thousands of users and more than 10 million
computing cores in production worldwide, and Kata
Containers, offering the speed of containers with the security and
isolation of virtual machines.

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